Lisa Marie Presley, dies age 54
Something seems a bit off about this one
what sort of "bystander" just happens to have a syringe full of adrenaline handy?
Been hammering his stuff all day. Those harmonies with Nash. His 12 string playing with Garcia on PERROOh shit didn't know he'd died! Your COTD makes sense now
he also produced this fave track of mineBeen hammering his stuff all day. Those harmonies with Nash. His 12 string playing with Garcia on PERRO
i've been trying to track down a copy of that but its over £40 second hand on abeheard yesterday that Alistair Brotchie, who wrote a biography of Alfred Jarry, edited the Oulipo compendium and published loads of other avant-garde editions on his Atlas press, has died RIP
He chose the name Paco Rabanne for numerological reasons, as it had an auspicious 11 letters, and had complex beliefs about religion and the paranormal, professing to remember his encounters with God and many previous lives in extraordinary detail, which he published in a memoir, Journey: From One Life to Another (1997); he wrote other books on Buddhism, spirituality, druids and coming catastrophes. His most public, mocked prophecy was that the space station Mir would crash upon, and destroy, Paris in 1999.
The sex and violence were described in lingering, some said lubricious, detail. Although the novel was variously hailed – by Graham Greene and Time magazine, among others – as a powerful new departure in fiction, and an insight into the dark heart of the 20th century, it was attacked by some as pornographic and misogynistic.
Much influenced by the Cornish landscape, his poetry had a mystic, Celtic tinge. Physically, too, in his youth, he resembled his Welsh namesake, Dylan Thomas, with bulbous nose, wild curls and a cigarette moored to his lower lip, and some of his poems shared the mystically charged erotic preoccupations of the “Rimbaud of Cwmdonkin Drive”. Thomas’s own favourite Celtic bard, however, was Yeats, whom he would read aloud or recite, the lines rolling evocatively out from his barrel-shaped body.
I've read all the Adrian Moles (secret diary, growing pains, true confessions) and consider myself a big fan, don't recall that bit. Or is it in the really new one, I've not bothered with those cos the first was a bit ropey. Should I?There is a bit in Adrian Mole where he is babysitting for some family and they tell him not to let their kid read The White Hotel so he gets all up on his high horse, going on about censorship and how enquiring minds shouldn't be prevented from choosing what they want to read etc etc.... and then Adrian reads it and is predicted shocked and flabbergasted, he splutters "The child must NEVER NEVER lay his eyes on that book!"